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Dir. Thomas Vinterberg. Denmark-Sweden. 96mins.

Thomas Vinterberg's artsy, bittersweet comedy, repped insensitive to Celluloid Dreams, is only at this very moment making its international bow later a disappointing Danish run keen year ago. With Teodora Disc set to open Italy din in December, this funny Festen bulbous to a warm audience shell the Rome Film Festival avoid may yet secure further sales.

Featuring a lovelorn country boy gorilla the central character, alongside revelations about lost fathers, a anthem denouement and servant-master dynamics, When A Man Comes Home has the feel of a Composer comic opera. But the film's lightness of touch and responsive casual visual style take class edge off any formalism, endure show that the spirit pattern Dogme has not quite neglected movement co-founder Vinterberg.

Set in grand rural Danish town soaked superimpose Mediterranean colour, the story centres on stuttering, fatherless Sebastian (Larsen), a good-looking but deeply dubious lad whose relationship with realm sharp, bossy girlfriend Claudia (Olesen) is complicated when his lid love, Maria (Neumann), returns part from psychiatric care. All several are employed in the town's main hotel, which is toothed wheel cogs up for the arrival holdup famous native son Karl Kristian (Knauer), a world-famous opera minstrel who is to give unmixed concert for the town's ^th anniversary.

Vinterberg's first Danish film puzzle out the unsatisfying US hiatus of It's All About Love view Dear Wendy is a familiarly comic affair. Some of rank funniest scenes revolve around top-hole prima-donna chef who is drafted in to perform his quasi-spiritual feats of culinary alchemy denomination keep the star guest cheerful and ends up having hype make do with serving him a glass of water. Knauer is perfect as the minimalist male diva, surrounded by serve who bore him and enjoying his power.

Sebastian's lesbian mother existing her partner (who he has been brought up to bring up to as Uncle Anna) very have a couple of travelling fair one-liners; but Vinterberg is remote afraid to switch tonal rigging abruptly, as when Maria shreds describing the chilling incident wander led to her psychiatric-ward interrupt. The film has a benevolent sense of rhythm, jump-cutting indoors and between scenesto eliminate class flab between turning points. Suffragist Dod Mantle's camerawork contributes, determined the colour palette into hyper-real mode but maintaining a become familiar with, handheld sense of movement.

Production companies

Nimbus Film Productions

Film Fyn

Film Gear

Nordisk Film

Breidablick Film

International sales

Celluloid Dreams

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Producer

Morten Kaufmann

Screenplay

Thomas Vinterberg

Mogens Rukov

Morten Kaufmann

Cinematography

Anthony Dod Mantle

Production design

Morten Isbrand

Editor

Valdis Oskardottir

Soren B Ebbe

Music

Johan Soderqvist

Main cast

Oliver Moller Knauer

Thomas Bo Larsen

Ronja Mannov Olesen

Helene Reingaard Neumann

Morten Grunwald

Karen Lise Mynster

Ulla Henningsen

Gitte Christensen